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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks to Kate McDonald, Associate Professor of History at Uni
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies be
Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book,
Known worldwide as Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949) is an American icon whose influence on m
The earliest Jewish Sunday schools were female-led, growing from one school in Philadelphia establis
Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional pr
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024) offers a
Russia's forceful re-entry into the Middle Eastern arena, and the accentuated continuity of Soviet p
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international
Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City's most populous borough through their search f
The Gnostic Trilogy is the best-known and most important work by the ascetic philosopher and teacher
Listen to this interview of Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Department of Com
How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without he
During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing
For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to America
Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire (U Haw
In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few t
F*ck The Army! How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (NYU Press,
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left (Akashic Books, 2024) explores how that pivotal slice of
Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought (Brandeis UP, 2022) proposes a n
